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How to create custom template in C# with ByteScout Document Parser SDK

This tutorial will show how to create custom template in C#

The coding tutorials are designed to help you test the features without need to write your own code. ByteScout Document Parser SDK is the template based data extraction engine can process thousands and millions of documents per day based on templates. Can work online and offline for privacy focused tasks. Templates can be supported and updated without any programming or technical knowledge required. Output is generated in JSON, CSV, XML and custom format if required and you can use it to create custom template with C#.

Fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout Document Parser SDK for C# plus the instruction and the code below will help you quickly learn how to create custom template. Follow the instructions from the scratch to work and copy the C# code. Further enhancement of the code will make it more vigorous.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using ByteScout.DocumentParser;

// This example demonstrates data parsing from an invoice using the custom template.

namespace CustomTemplate
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string customTemplate = @".\SampleTemplate.yml";
            string inputDocument = @".\SampleInvoice.pdf";

            // Create DocumentParser instance
            using (DocumentParser documentParser = new DocumentParser("demo", "demo"))
            {
                Console.WriteLine({code}quot;Loading template \"{customTemplate}\"...");
                Console.WriteLine();

                documentParser.AddTemplate(customTemplate);
                
                Console.WriteLine({code}quot;Parsing \"{inputDocument}\"...");
                Console.WriteLine();

                // Parse invoice data in JSON format
                string jsonString = documentParser.ParseDocument(inputDocument, OutputFormat.JSON);
                // Display parsed data in console
                Console.WriteLine("Parsing results in JSON format:");
                Console.WriteLine();
                Console.WriteLine(jsonString);
            }

            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

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SampleTemplate.yml

      sourceId: My Custom Template
detectionRules:
  keywords:
  - Your Company Name
  - Invoice No\.
  - TOTAL
fields:
  total:
    expression: TOTAL {{DECIMAL}}
    type: decimal
    pageIndex: 0
  dateIssued:
    expression: Invoice Date {{DATE}}
    type: date
    dateFormat: auto-mdy
    pageIndex: 0
  invoiceId:
    expression: Invoice No. {{123}}
    pageIndex: 0
  companyName:
    expression: Vendor Company
    static: true
    pageIndex: 0
  billTo:
    rect:
    - 32.25
    - 150
    - 348
    - 70.5
    pageIndex: 0
  notes:
    rect:
    - 32.25
    - 227.25
    - 531
    - 47.25
    pageIndex: 0
tables:
- name: table1
  start:
    expression: Item\s+Quantity\s+Price\s+Total
  end:
    expression: TOTAL
  subItemStart: {}
  subItemEnd: {}
  row:
    expression: ^\s*(?<description>\w+.*)(?<quantity>\d+)\s+(?<unitPrice>\d+\.\d{2})\s+(?<itemTotal>\d+\.\d{2})\s*$